1.6 Obtaining and Installing Guile

Guile can be obtained from the main GNU archive site
ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any of its mirrors. The file will be named
guile-version.tar.gz. The current version is 2.1.0.1991-47577, so the
file you should grab is:

which will create a directory called guile-2.1.0.1991-47577 with
all the sources. You can look at the file INSTALL for detailed
instructions on how to build and install Guile, but you should be able
to just do

cd guile-2.1.0.1991-47577
./configure
make
make install

This will install the Guile executable guile, the Guile library
libguile and various associated header files and support libraries. It
will also install the Guile reference manual.

Since this manual frequently refers to the Scheme “standard”, also
known as R5RS, or the
“Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme”,
we have included the report in the Guile distribution; see
Introduction in Revised(5) Report on the Algorithmic
Language Scheme.
This will also be installed in your info directory.